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A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition of service and luxury. Similar developments were under way in London (with Whiteleys), in Paris ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) and in New York City (Stewart's).<ref>Gunther Barth, "The Department Store," in City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. (Oxford University Press, 1980) pp 110–47,</ref>
Today, departments often include the following: clothing, cosmetics, do it yourself, furniture, gardening, hardware, home appliances, houseware, paint, sporting goods, toiletries, and toys. Additionally, other lines of products such as food, books, jewellery, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment, baby products, and products for pets are sometimes included. Customers generally check out near the front of the store in discount department stores, while high-end traditional department stores include sales counters within each department. Some stores are one of many within a larger retail chain, while others are an independent retailer.
Since the 1980s, they have come under heavy pressure from discounters, and have come under even heavier pressure from e-commerce sites since the 2000s. Template:TOC limit
TypesEdit
Department stores can be classified in several ways:
- Mainline department store or simply, the traditional department store, offering mid- to high-end goods, most or at least some of the time at the full retail price. Examples are Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward, Sears and Belk.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Junior department store, a term used principally in the second part of the 20th century for a smaller version of a mainline department store. These were usually either independent stores, or chains such as Boston Store and Harris & Frank, which specialized in cosmetics and wearing apparel and accessories, with few home goods.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Discount department store, a large discount store selling apparel and home furnishings at a discount, either selling overstock from mainline department stores, or merchandise especially made for the discount department store market. Examples are Nordstrom Rack, Saks Off 5th, Marshalls, Ross Dress for Less, TJ Maxx, and Kohl's.<ref name="mainline">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Some sources may refer to the following types of stores as department stores, even though they are not generally considered as such:
- Hypermarkets (discount superstores with full grocery offerings, such as Target, Walmart and Carrefour)<ref>"Hypermarket", Investopedia</ref>
- Variety stores, also known in the U.S. as five and dimes, or dollar stores
HistoryEdit
Origins in England, 1700sEdit
One of the first department stores may have been Bennett's in Derby, first established as an ironmonger (hardware shop) in 1734.<ref name="Bennetts"/><ref name="derbyshire">Template:Cite news</ref> It continued trading in the same building until its administation and closure in 2019.<ref name="Bennetts">Template:Cite news</ref> However, the first reliably dated department store to be established, was Harding, Howell & Co., which opened in 1796 on Pall Mall, London.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The oldest department store chain may be Debenhams, which was established in 1778 and closed in 2021. It is the longest trading defunct British retailer. An observer writing in Ackermann's Repository, a British periodical on contemporary taste and fashion, described the enterprise in 1809 as follows:
The house is one hundred and fifty feet in length from front to back, and of proportionate width. It is fitted up with great taste, and is divided by glazed partitions into four departments, for the various branches of the extensive business, which is there carried on. Immediately at the entrance is the first department, which is exclusively appropriated to the sale of furs and fans. The second contains articles of haberdashery of every description, silks, muslins, lace, gloves, &etc. In the third shop, on the right, you meet with a rich assortment of jewelry, ornamental articles in ormolu, French clocks, &etc.; and on the left, with all the different kinds of perfumery necessary for the toilette. The fourth is set apart for millinery and dresses; so that there is no article of female attire or decoration, but what may be here procured in the first style of elegance and fashion. This concern has been conducted for the last twelve years by the present proprietors who have spared neither trouble nor expense to ensure the establishment of a superiority over every other in Europe, and to render it perfectly unique in its kind.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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This venture is described as having all of the basic characteristics of the department store; it was a public retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different departments. Jonathan Glancey for the BBC writes:
Harding, Howell & Co was focused on the needs and desires of fashionable women. Here, at last women were free to browse and shop, safely and decorously, away from home and from the company of men. These, for the main part, were newly affluent middle-class women, their good fortune – and the department store itself – nurtured and shaped by the Industrial Revolution. This was transforming life in London and the length and breadth of Britain at a dizzying pace on the back of energetic free trade, fecund invention, steam and sail, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of expendable cheap labour.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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This pioneering shop was closed down in 1820 when the business partnership was dissolved. All the major High Streets in British cities had flourishing department stores by the mid-or late nineteenth century. Increasingly, women became the main customers.<ref>Alison Adburgham, Shops and Shopping, 1880–1914: Where and in What Matter the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes (2nd ed. 1981)</ref> Kendals (formerly Kendal Milne & Faulkner) in Manchester lays claim to being one of the first department stores and is still known to many of its customers as Kendal's, despite its 2005 name change to House of Fraser. The Manchester institution dates back to 1836 but had been trading as Watts Bazaar since 1796.<ref name="PB80">Template:Cite book</ref> At its zenith the store had buildings on both sides of Deansgate linked by a subterranean passage "Kendals Arcade" and an art nouveau tiled food hall. The store was especially known for its emphasis on quality and style over low prices giving it the nickname "the Harrods of the North", although this was due in part to Harrods acquiring the store in 1919. Harrods of London can be traced back to 1834, though the current store was built between 1894 and 1905. Opened in 1830, Austins in Derry remained in operation as the world's oldest independent department store until its closure in 2016.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lewis's of Liverpool operated from 1856 to 2010. The world's first Christmas grotto opened in Lewis's in 1879, entitled 'Christmas Fairyland'.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Liberty & Co. in London's West End gained popularity in the 1870s for selling Oriental goods.<ref>Iarocci, L., Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling, Ashgate Publishing, 2013, p. 128</ref> In 1889, Oscar Wilde wrote "Liberty's is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Origins in Parisian magasins de nouveautésEdit
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The Paris department stores have roots in the magasin de nouveautés, or novelty store; the first, the Tapis Rouge, was created in 1784.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> They flourished in the early 19th century. Balzac described their functioning in his novel César Birotteau. In the 1840s, with the arrival of the railroads in Paris and the increased number of shoppers they brought, they grew in size, and began to have large plate glass display windows, fixed prices and price tags, and advertising in newspapers.<ref name="Fierro (1996), pages 911–912">Template:Cite book</ref>
A novelty shop called Au Bon Marché had been founded in Paris in 1838 to sell items like lace, ribbons, sheets, mattresses, buttons, and umbrellas. It grew from Template:Convert and 12 employees in 1838 to Template:Convert and 1,788 employees in 1879. Boucicaut was famous for his marketing innovations; a reading room for husbands while their wives shopped; extensive newspaper advertising; entertainment for children; and six million catalogs sent out to customers. By 1880 half the employees were women; unmarried women employees lived in dormitories on the upper floors.<ref name="world">Template:Cite book</ref>
Au Bon Marché soon had half a dozen or more competitors including Printemps, founded in 1865; La Samaritaine (1869), Bazar de Hotel de Ville (BHV); and Galeries Lafayette (1895).<ref name="Fierro (1996), pages 911–912" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The French gloried in the national prestige brought by the great Parisian stores.<ref name="Heidrun Homburg 1992 pp 183-219">Template:Cite journal</ref> The great writer Émile Zola (1840–1902) set his novel {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (1882–83) in the typical department store, making it a symbol of the new technology that was both improving society and devouring it.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
First Australian department storesEdit
Australia is notable for having the longest continuously operating department store, David Jones.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Citation</ref> The first David Jones department store was opened on 24 May 1838, by Welsh born immigrant David Jones in a "large and commodious premises" on the corner of George and Barrack Streets in Sydney, only 50 years after the foundation of the colony. Expanding to a number of stores in the various states of Australia, David Jones is the oldest continuously operating department franchise in the world.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> Other department stores in Australia include Grace Bros founded in 1885, now merged with Myer which was founded in 1900.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
First American department stores (1825–1858)Edit
Arnold Constable was the first American department store. It was founded in 1825 as a small dry goods store on Pine Street in New York City. In 1857 the store moved into a five-story white marble dry goods palace known as the Marble House. During the Civil War, Arnold Constable was one of the first stores to issue charge bills of credit to its customers each month instead of on a bi-annual basis. The store soon outgrew the Marble House and erected a cast-iron building on Broadway and Nineteenth Street in 1869; this "Palace of Trade" expanded over the years until it was necessary to move into a larger space in 1914. Financial problems led to bankruptcy in 1975.<ref>"The Arnold Constable & Company Buildings" May 16, 2013 Template:Webarchive</ref>
In New York City in 1846, Alexander Turney Stewart established the "Marble Palace" on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets. He offered European retail merchandise at fixed prices on a variety of dry goods, and advertised a policy of providing "free entrance" to all potential customers. Though it was clad in white marble to look like a Renaissance palazzo, the building's cast iron construction permitted large plate glass windows that permitted major seasonal displays, especially in the Christmas shopping season. In 1862, Stewart built a new store on a full city block uptown between 9th and 10th streets, with eight floors. His innovations included buying from manufacturers for cash and in large quantities, keeping his markup small and prices low, truthful presentation of merchandise, the one-price policy (so there was no haggling), simple merchandise returns and cash refund policy, selling for cash and not credit, buyers who searched worldwide for quality merchandise, departmentalization, vertical and horizontal integration, volume sales, and free services for customers such as waiting rooms and free delivery of purchases.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy founded Macy's as a dry goods store.
Innovations 1850–1917Edit
Marshall Field & Company originated in 1852. It was the premier department store on the busiest shopping street in the Midwest at the time, State Street in Chicago.<ref>Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan, Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (1952)</ref> Marshall Field's served as a model for other department stores in that it had exceptional customer service.Template:Citation needed Marshall Field's also had the firsts; among many innovations by Marshall Field's were the first European buying office, which was located in Manchester, England, and the first bridal registry. The company was the first to introduce the concept of the personal shopper, and that service was provided without charge in every Field's store, until the chain's last days under the Marshall Field's name. It was the first store to offer revolving credit and the first department store to use escalators.Template:Citation needed Marshall Field's book department in the State Street store was legendary;Template:Citation needed it pioneered the concept of the "book signing". Moreover, every year at Christmas, Marshall Field's downtown store windows were filled with animated displays as part of the downtown shopping district display; the "theme" window displays became famous for their ingenuity and beauty, and visiting the Marshall Field's windows at Christmas became a tradition for Chicagoans and visitors alike, as popular a local practice as visiting the Walnut Room with its equally famous Christmas tree or meeting "under the clock" on State Street.<ref>Wendt and Kogan, Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (1952)</ref>
In 1877, John Wanamaker opened what some claim was the United States' first "modern" department store in Philadelphia: the first to offer fixed prices marked on every article and also introduced electrical illumination (1878), the telephone (1879), and the use of pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents (1880) to the department store business.<ref>Robert Sobel, The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition (1974), chapter 3, "John Wanamaker: The Triumph of Content Over Form"</ref>
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Another store to revolutionize the concept of the department store was Selfridges in London, established in 1909 by American-born Harry Gordon Selfridge on Oxford Street. The company's innovative marketing promoted the radical notion of shopping for pleasure rather than necessity and its techniques were adopted by modern department stores the world over. The store was extensively promoted through paid advertising. The shop floors were structured so that goods could be made more accessible to customers. There were elegant restaurants with modest prices, a library, reading and writing rooms, special reception rooms for French, German, American and "Colonial" customers, a First Aid Room, and a Silence Room, with soft lights, deep chairs, and double-glazing, all intended to keep customers in the store as long as possible. Staff members were taught to be on hand to assist customers, but not too aggressively, and to sell the merchandise.<ref>J.A. Gere and John Sparrow (ed.), Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks, Oxford University Press, 1981</ref> Selfridge attracted shoppers with educational and scientific exhibits; in 1909, Louis Blériot's monoplane was exhibited at Selfridges (Blériot was the first to fly over the English Channel), and the first public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird took place in the department store in 1925.
In Japan, the first "modern-style" department store was Mitsukoshi, founded in 1904, which has its root as a kimono store called Echigoya from 1673. When the roots are considered, however, Matsuzakaya has an even longer history, dated from 1611. The kimono store changed to a department store in 1910. In 1924, Matsuzakaya store in Ginza allowed street shoes to be worn indoors, something innovative at the time.<ref>Matsuzakaya corporate history</ref> These former kimono shop department stores dominated the market in its earlier history. They sold, or instead displayed, luxurious products, which contributed to their sophisticated atmospheres. Another origin of the Japanese department store is from railway companies. There have been many private railway operators in the nation and, from the 1920s, they started to build department stores directly linked to their lines' termini. Seibu and Hankyu are typical examples of this type.
Innovation (1917–1945)Edit
In the middle of the 1920s, American management theories such as the scientific management of F.W. Taylor started spreading in Europe. The International Management Institute (I.M.I.) was established in Geneva in 1927 to facilitate the diffusion of such ideas. A number of department stores teamed up together to create the International Association of Department Stores in Paris in 1928 to have a discussion space dedicated to this retail format.Template:Expand section
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| 1923 | I. Magnin Hollywood | Los Angeles | First suburban department store (not including hotel/resort stores) | <ref>Template:Cite book</ref> |
| 1930 | Suburban Square | Philadelphia | First department store branch to anchor a suburban shopping center | <ref name="inq"/> |
Expansion to mallsEdit
Template:Expand section The U.S. Baby Boom led to the development of suburban neighborhoods and suburban commercial developments, including shopping malls. Department stores joined these ventures following the growing market of baby boomer spending.
A handful of U.S. retailers had opened seasonal stores in resorts, as well as smaller branch stores in suburbs, in the 1920s and 1930s. Examples include, in suburban Los Angeles, The Broadway-Hollywood, Bullocks Wilshire, The May Company-Wilshire, Saks-Beverly Hills, as well as two Strawbridge and Clothier stores: Suburban Square (1930) and Jenkintown (1931) outside Philadelphia. Suburban Square was the first shopping center anchored by a department store.<ref name="inq">Template:Cite news</ref> In the 1950s, suburban growth took off – for example, in 1952, May Company California opened a four-level, Template:Convert<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> store in Lakewood Center near Los Angeles, at the time, the largest suburban department store in the world.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, only three years later it would build an even bigger, Template:Convert store in the San Fernando Valley at Laurel Plaza.
Expansion worldwideEdit
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2010–todayEdit
Starting in 2010 many analysts referred to a retail apocalypse in the United States and some other markets, referring to the closing of brick-and-mortar retail stores, especially those of large chains.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="atlantic" /> In 2017, over 12,000 U.S. stores closed due to over-expansion of malls, rising rents, bankruptcies, leveraged buyouts, low quarterly profits other than during holiday peak periods, delayed effects of the Great Recession of 2008-9,<ref name="atlantic">Template:Cite magazine</ref> shifts in spending to experiences rather than material goods, relaxed dress codes in workplaces, and the shift to e-commerce<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in which Template:AnchorAmazon.com and Walmart dominated versus the online offerings of traditional retailers.
COVID-19 increased the number of permanent store closings in two ways: first through mandatory temporary closing of stores, especially in March and April 2020, with customers largely staying away from stores for non-essential purchases for many more months after that; and secondly, by causing a shift to working from home, which stimulated e-commerce further and reduced demand for business apparel.Template:Cn
Click-and-collect, curbside pickupEdit
Click-and-collect services at department stores had been increasing during the 2010s, with many creating larger, distinctly signed, designated areas. Some of the more elaborate ones included features such as reception and seating areas with coffee served, computers with large screens for online shopping, and dressing rooms.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
With the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, most U.S. retailers offered a curbside pickup service as an option on their websites, and a dedicated area at one of the store entrances accessible by car.
Store-within-a-storeEdit
Along with discount stores, mainline department stores implemented more and more "stores-within-a-store". For luxury brands this was often in boutiques similar to the brands' own shops on streets and in malls; they hired their own employees who merchandised the selling space, and rang up the transactions at the brand's own cash registers. The main difference was that the boutique was physically inside the department store building, although in many cases there are walls or windows between the main store space and the boutique, with designated entrances.Template:Cn
Around the worldEdit
Largest flagship storesEdit
Table of largest department store flagship or branch stores by sales areaEdit
Incomplete list, notable stores of Template:Cvt or more. Individual department store buildings or complexes of buildings. Does not include shopping centers (e.g. GUM in Moscow and Intime "Department Stores" in China) where most space is leased out to other retailers, big-box category killer stores (e.g. Best Buy, Decathlon), hypermarkets, discount stores (e.g. Walmart, Carrefour), markets, or souqs.
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| Macy's | Herald Square (see article) |
New York | U.S. | 232,258 | 2,500,000<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | 1902 | open | ||
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| Anthony Hordern & Sons | Sydney | Australia | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt | 1823 | 1973 | |||
| Gimbels | Center City | Philadelphia | U.S. | 202,343 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Hudson's | Downtown Detroit | Detroit | U.S. | 197,355 (1983) | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Marshall Fields, now Macy's |
State Street store (see article) |
Chicago | U.S. | 185,806 (1912) | 2,000,000 (1912)<ref name="field1912">Template:Cite news</ref> | 1902 | open | ||
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| Wanamaker's, now Macy's |
1300 Market St., Center City | Philadelphia | U.S. | 176,516 (1995) | 1,900,000 (1995)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
1876 | March 23, 2025<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Shinsegae | Uijeongbu (의정부점) | Uijeongbu | S. Korea | 145,000<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Cvt | open | |||
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| Rich's | Downtown | Atlanta | U.S. | 115,886 | 1,247,382 | 1924 | 1994 | ||
| Kaufmann's | 400 5th Ave., Downtown | Pittsburgh | U.S. | Template:Cvt<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Cvt | 1887<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
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| Wertheim | Leipziger Straße | Berlin | Germany | Template:Cvt<ref name="wogt">Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Cvt | Template:Dts<ref name="wogt" /> | Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| May Co. | Public Square− | Cleveland | U.S. | Template:Cvt | 1,121,000<ref>"May Co. Cleveland Ohio", Department Store Museum</ref> | 1915 | 1993 | ||
| Hankyu | Umeda (see article in Japanese) |
Osaka | Japan | 102,758<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | 1,106,078 | Template:Dts<ref name="hankyu-dept_9804">Template:Cite book</ref> | open | ||
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| Le Bon Marché | 7th arrondissement | Paris | France | 102,360 | 1,101,794 | Template:Dts<ref name="enssib">Nathalie Mercier, Le grand magasin parisien : Le Bon Marché, 1863-1938, mémoire de fin d'études de l'École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, 1985.</ref> | open | ||
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Broadway, Downtown (see article) |
Los Angeles | U.S. | 102,193 | 1,100,000<ref name=lat>Template:Cite news</ref> | 1906 | 1986 | ||
| Harrods | Knightsbridge | London | U.K. | 102,193 | 1,100,000<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | 1849 | open | ||
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| Kintetsu | Abeno Harukas (see article in Japanese) |
Osaka | Japan | 100,000<ref name=kintetsu>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=umeda-all>Template:Cite news</ref> | 1,076,391 | Template:Dts<ref name=kintetsu/> | open | ||
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| Intime | Ningbo General | Ningbo | China | 96,000 | 1,003,335<ref name=intime>"Intime Department Stores", China Yintai, retrieved 26 November 2023</ref> | open | |||
| Gimbels | Herald Square | New York | U.S. | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Shinsegae | Daejeon (대전신세계) Shinsegae Art & Science | Daejeon | S. Korea | 88,572 dept. store areaTemplate:Citation needed | Template:Cvt | 2021 | open | ||
| Carson Pirie Scott | State Street | Chicago | U.S. | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt<ref>Ori, Ryan (27 April 2016). "Landmark Sullivan Center selling for $267 million". Crain's Chicago Business.</ref> | 1872/1898 | Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Mandel Bros./ Wieboldt's |
State Street | Chicago | U.S. | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt<ref>"Wieboldt's", Department Store Museum</ref> | 1875 | Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Takashimaya | Minami (Namba-Shinsaibashi) | Osaka | Japan | Template:Cvt<ref name=umeda-all/> | Template:Cvt | open | |||
| Daimaru | Shinsaibashi (see article in Japanese) |
Osaka | Japan | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt | 1922 | open | ||
| Eaton's/ Sears Canada |
Eaton Centre | Toronto | Canada | 76,809 | 816,000<ref name="eaton">Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Dts<ref name=torontoist>Jamie Bradburn. "Opening of Eaton Centre", Torontoist, February 2014.</ref><ref>"Eaton Centre Sears closes its doors", Toronto Star, February 24, 2014</ref> | Template:Dts<ref name=torontoist/> | ||
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| Bullock's | Broadway, Downtown | Los Angeles | U.S. | 75,809 | 806,000<ref>"Bullock's Department Store #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA (1906-1907)", PCAD</ref> | 1907 | 1983 | ||
| The Bon Marché | Downtown see article |
Seattle | U.S. | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt<ref>"National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Bon Marche Department Store". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior</ref> | 1929 | 2020 | ||
| Karstadt now Galeria |
Hermannplatz (see article in German) | Berlin | Germany | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt | 1929 | open | ||
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| The Emporium | Market Street | San Francisco | U.S. | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | 1908 | 1996 | ||
| El Corte Inglés | Torre Titania, Paseo de la Castellana, Castellana | Madrid | Spain | citation | CitationClass=web
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753,474 | 2011<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | open | |
| Galeries Lafayette | Boulevard Haussmann | Paris | France | citation | CitationClass=web
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753,474 | 1912<ref name="france"/> | open | |
| Lazarus | 141 S. High St. (see article) | Columbus, Ohio | U.S. | Template:Convert | Template:Convert<ref name="lazarus-building">References at Lazarus Building</ref> | Template:Dts<ref name="lazarus-building" /> | Template:Dts<ref name="lazarus-building" /> | ||
| Isetan | Shinjuku (see article in Japanese) |
Tokyo | Japan | Template:Convert<ref name="2007ar" /> | Template:Convert | Template:Dts<ref name="2007ar">Template:Cite report Store size is not published in their later e.g. 2023 annual report.</ref> | open | ||
| Daimaru | Umeda (see article in Japanese) |
Osaka | Japan | Template:Cvt<ref name="umeda-all" /> | Template:Cvt | open | |||
| El Palacio de Hierro/ Casa Palacio |
Centro Santa Fe | Santa Fe, Mexico City | Mexico | Template:Convert<ref>Total of 61,987 sqm consisting of 52,050 main PdH store + 9,937 Casa Palacio home store as indicated in {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Saks Fifth Avenue | Midtown (see article) |
New York | U.S. | Template:Cvt | Template:Cvt<ref>31 July 2017. "Activist investor pens another letter urging 're-invention' of Saks Fifth Avenue", New York Business Journal.</ref> | 1924 | open | ||
| KaDeWe | Tauentzienstraße | Berlin | Germany | Template:Cvt<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| J. W. Robinson's | 7th St. Downtown | Los Angeles | U.S. | Template:Convert | Template:Convert<ref name="lat192301">"Department Store Addition Now Rising Into Space", Los Angeles Times, 11 January 1923</ref> | Template:Dts<ref name="palace">Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Dts | ||
| Shinsegae | Myeongdong Main Store (본점 본관, 신관) | Seoul | S. Korea | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Halle's | Halle Building, 1228 Euclid Ave., Downtown | Cleveland, Ohio | U.S. | Template:Convert | Template:Convert<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Selfridges | Oxford Street | London | U.K. | 55,742 | 600,000<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Dts<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| El Palacio de Hierro | Polanco | Mexico City | Mexico | 55,200<ref name="mex">"El Palacio de Hierro strengthens Mexico City standing, revamps flagship", NPR; November 3, 2015</ref> | 594,168 | 2016 | open | ||
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| The Broadway | Broadway, Downtown | Los Angeles | U.S. | Template:Convert<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Convert | Template:Dts<ref name="lat-1991feb12">Template:Cite news</ref> | Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Hanshin | Umeda (see article in Japanese) |
Osaka | Japan | 54,000<ref name="umeda-all" /> | Template:Cvt | open | |||
| Isetan | JR West Ōsaka Station (see article in Japanese) |
Osaka | Japan | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | Template:Dts | Template:Dts<ref name="osaka">Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
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*store has no branches **opened at this location (may have expanded significantly in the years after initial opening)
See alsoEdit
- Department stores around the world
- List of department stores by country
- Distribution, Retail, Marketing
- History of retailing in the modern era
- Types of retail outlets
- International Association of Department Stores
- Retail apocalypse
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
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- Abelson, Elaine S. When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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- Adburgham, Alison. Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance (1979).
- Barth, Gunther. "The Department Store," in City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. (Oxford University Press, 1980) pp 110–47, compares major countries in the 19th century.
- Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Culture: Saleswomen, Managers and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940. (University of Illinois Press, 1988) Template:ISBN.
- Elias, Stephen N. Alexander T. Stewart: The Forgotten Merchant Prince (1992) online
- Ershkowicz, Herbert. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia Merchant. New York: DaCapo Press, 1999.
- Gibbons, Herbert Adams. John Wanamaker. New York: Harper & Row, 1926.
- Harris, Leon. Merchant Princes: An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores (Harper and Row, 1979)
- Hendrickson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores. (Stein and Day, 1979).
- Kozak, Nadine I. "‘Enlightenment on all subjects under the sun’: department store information bureaux in Britain and the United States in the first half of the twentieth century." Library & Information History 38.3 (2022): 210-231.
- Laermans, Rudi. "Learning to consume: early department stores and the shaping of the modern consumer culture (1860-1914)." Theory, Culture & Society 10.4 (1993): 79-102.
- Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. (Pantheon, 1993). Template:ISBN).
- Parker, K. . "Sign Consumption in the 19th-Century Department Store: An Examination of Visual Merchandising in the Grand Emporiums (1846–1900)." Journal of Sociology (2003) 39 (4): 353–371.
- Parker, Traci. Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- Perkins, John, and Craig Freedman. "Organisational form and retailing development: the department and the chain store, 1860-1940." Service Industries Journal 19.4 (1999): 123-146.
- Remus, Emily. A shoppers’ paradise: how the ladies of Chicago claimed power and pleasure in the new downtown (Harvard University Press, 2019).
- Samson, Peter. "The department store, its past and its future, a review article" Business History Review (1981), 55#1, pp. 26–34. online
- Savitt, Ronald. "The greatest store west of Chicago: Meier & Frank, 1857-1932." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 9.1 (2017): 17-33. in Portland, Oregon. online
- Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876–1915. (HarperCollins, 1991).
- Siry, Joseph. Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store (University of Chicago Press, 1988) online.
- Sobel, Robert. "John Wanamaker: The Triumph of Content Over Form," in The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition (Weybright & Talley, 1974. Template:ISBN).
- Spang, Rebecca L. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. (Harvard UP, 2000). 325 p.
- Stobart, Jon, and Vicki Howard, eds. The Routledge companion to the history of retailing (Routledge, 2018) online.
- Tiersten, Lisa. Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siècle France (2001) online
- Weil, Gordon Lee. Sears, Roebuck, USA: The great American catalog store and how it grew (1977).
- Whitaker, Jan Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class. (St. Martin's Press, 2006. Template:ISBN.)
- Whitaker, Jan. The World of Department Stores (The Vedome Press, 2011).
- Young, William H. "Department Store" in Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015), online
External linksEdit
- Cathedrals of Consumption: The rise of the department store in Britain - Historical Eye
- About Lower Manhattan: History: Did you know: A.T. Stewart's Department Store (archived) from LowerManhattan.info
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- International Association of Department Stores
- Under One Roof: The death and life of the New York department store by Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, Sept. 14, 2003